Days after a doctor from Thane district forgot a bag containing jewellery worth more than Rs 23.50 lakh on an express train, the Government Railway Police (GRP) recovered it from the house of a man in Ahmedabad, an official said on Wednesday. All the valuables in the bag were intact, he said.

The incident occurred on February 1 when a state government doctor and his wife were travelling from Hyderabad to Kalyan in Thane district neighbouring Mumbai. “When the train halted due to a signal failure at Ambernath station (in Thane district), the doctor and his wife decided to get down instead of waiting for the train to start moving again. In a hurry, they forgot a bag containing jewellery worth more than R23.50 lakh in the coach,” said Kalyan GRP senior inspector Arsuddin Sheikh.